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LXMusic 0.4.3 released
LXMusic 0.4.3 was released by Jürgen Hötzel. Most important changes include: * Adopt XMMS2 DrNo 0.7 API changes * Fix a double free (on_playback_track_loaded) * Translation updates Please help to advance LXDE development and test releases, help with translations and update the wiki. Links: * Git Repository: http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde/lxmusic * LXMusic in the LXDE Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic […]
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HUGE success of the Fedora 12 LXDE Spin
The Fedora 12 LXDE spin turns out to be a huge success. It only took us 8 days to become number #2 in the most popular Fedora Spins, although the other spins were released two weeks before LXDE. As I’m writing this post, we had more than 2500 complete BitTorrent downloads.
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LXDE opportunities for OLPC Afghanistan and OLPC Vietnam
Faster and easier IT tools can benefit a lot of people all over the world. A goal that LXDE shares with One Laptop per Child. To bring LXDE on the XO-laptop can help to turn the XO from a tool for children only into a device for the whole family. OLPC Afghanistan This year in […]
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Summer of Code: Meet up with Leslie Hawthorn Community Manager of Google
The strength of an Open Source FOSS project comes from its community. Google has realized that and supports the community with its Summer of Code programme. I had the chance to meet up at an earlybird breakfast in Brussels with Leslie Hawthorn and some folks from Google like Peter Anvin to discuss some ideas of […]
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LXDE Talk at FOSDEM 2009
We had a fantastic time at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels. After the Chaos Communication Congress a few weeks ago, we have again seen many people already using LXDE. Christoph Wickert (Fedora) and I had a lightning talk where we gave an overview of LXDE and the expanding community in front of about 500 people. Special […]
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LXDE at the 25C3 Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin
Members of the LXDE community are currently meeting at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. The 25C3 is one of the biggest hacker and developer events in the world with more than 3000 hackers gathering for 4 days just after Christmas. Mario Behling, Maces, alx It is exciting to be here and see that many […]
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Community First!
The current release of MySQL shows the problems free and open source software projects face that put business first and community second. Michael “Monty” Widenius critizes in his Blog the current developement model of MySQL and recommends not to use the current release 5.1 of the database system. The reason I am asking you to […]
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LXDE Meeting in Shenzhen – Video
There is now a video online of the gathering with the Shenzhen Linux User Group and our discussion about Open Source and LXDE provided from Zhang Le. Thanks a lot! Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9072456269136280272 Avi-Link: http://www.gentoo-cn.org/~zhangle/szlug/mario_lxde_20081122.avi Mario BehlingMario Behling is a German born serial entrepreneur. He founded the lubuntu project, and as the co-founder of FOSSASIA […]
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Linux User Group Shenzhen (Szlug) Meeting and Presentation of LXDE
I had a fantastic meeting with the Linux User Group in Shenzhen, which is just on the border to Hong Kong and seat of some famous technology companies such as Huawei and Tencent (QQ). The Shenzhen Linux User Group (Szlug) is one of the biggest Linux User Groups in Asia and has currently 480 members. […]